On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0400, Sam Carmichael wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to ganglia. I'm wondering if anybody use it to do monitoring
> on a per-process basis than per-machine basis. Suppose I have a
> cluster of machines and each machine runs multiple instances of a
> particular process, and I want to publish gmetric stats from each
> process. From what I can see, the gmetric structure is rather flat, I
> don't quite see how to create a hierarchy of metrics that goes from
> machine->process->metric.  I can prepend the process instance name
> to the metric, but this inevitably increase the metric message size
> rather significantly (I have many metrics per process).

There is no hierarchy to the metrics.  A hierarchy would be a useful
feature.

-- Brooks

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